H1 IC revenues down 13.9% y-o-y

H1 semiconductor sales fell 13.9% y-o-y  – the biggest drop in a half since H1 2009 says IHS Markit. Major chip suppliers suffered their worst revenue declines in years—10 years in some cases. Major semiconductor product areas also experienced the largest drops in demand since 2009. Global semiconductor revenue in the first half totaled $203.7 ...

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July semi sales down 15.5% y-o-y

July semiconductor sales were 15.5% down y-o-y, says the SIA. July sales were $33.4 billion in July 2019, 1.7% more than the June 2019 total of $32.8 billion, but 15.5% less than the July 2018 total of $39.5 billion. “While global semiconductor sales in July were once again down on a year-to-year basis, month-to-month sales ...

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Infineon adds to CoolSic EV and UPS power modules

Infineon is shipping two new EasyPACK power modules of the 1200 V family for EVs. Both, Easy 1B and Easy 2B, integrate CoolSiC MOSFETs aiming not only at the EV market but also at UPS applications. Coming in two different topologies the power modules enable engineers to increase their systems’ efficiency for reduced cooling effort. ...

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Danisense adds calibration test lab

Danisense, the Danish current transducer specialist, has set up a DC calibration test lab at its Danish headquarters and manufacturing site in Taastrup.  A free service for its high voltage 500V and 10,000V products, units are 100% tested and shipped with a Certificate of Calibration which details the actual current error (always significantly less than the ...

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Raspberry Pi and Panasonic donate computers to Cameroon school

The Raspberry Pi Foundation and Panasonic Industry Europe have donated 100 Raspberry Pis to the Lycee D’Akwa-Nord Bonamoussadi High School and the University of Science in Douala. In total over 250 pupils – undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students – together with their professors followed the educational and demonstrational sessions after the computers were handed over, ...

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CMOS sensor for laser triangulation

Teledyne e2v has announced a family of CMOS image sensors for 3D laser triangulation – for use in applications such as distance measurement, profile measurement and high resolution physical inspection. Branded ‘Flash’, the sensors feature a 6μm CMOS global shutter pixel which combines high resolution and fast frame rate. They are available in a 4k or ...

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More on: MIT’s carbon nanotube RISC-V CPU

Last week MIT announced a CPU made from carbon nano-tube (CNT) mosfets using standard CMOS fab equipment and only the materials and processes found within commercial CMOS fabs. Electronics Weekly has delved inside to see how it works. In essence, the CNT logic is CMOS, as the researchers have found a way to create p-channel CNT ...

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Omnivision sampling sensor with 2.2 micron pixel

OmniVision claims to have the smallest-ever pixel size of 2.2 microns for a backside-illuminated (BSI), global shutter (GS) image sensor. Its  OG01A sensor, now sampling, combines PureCel Plus-S pixel technology and Nyxel near-infrared (NIR) technology to enable optimal performance and precision  with NIR quantum efficiency (QE). This sensor is suitable for a wide range of ...

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